[PD] Pd sounds better than Max?

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

Charles Henry wrote:
> Most Pd objects (externals) use t_sample to define what gets passed to 
> input and output.  At compilation time, the externals code includes 
> m_pd.h, which defines t_sample as a float.  Which makes sense on 32-bit 
> processors--Pd for 64-bit processors could potentially redefine t_sample 
> as a double, with no loss in performance (with nearly twice as much 
> memory usage).

that's the theory.
in practice, even Pd-vanilla was using a wild mix of t_sample, t_float & 
float as sample-type until 0.41 (when i submitted a number of patches to 
clean that up)

i have a basically running version of Pd with 64bit double precision, 
basically only some oscillators have to be ported (osc~, phasor~,... use 
lowest level bitmanipulation in their core-routines)
playing soundfiles works fine :-)

fgmadsr
IOhannes